Canadian Government under Cyber Attack
Canadian Government under Cyber Attack The “Holy Lulz Crusade of Canada” is an operation initiated by the hackers of the Team Dig7tal collective, but it’s uncertain if this is a form of protest against the Canadian government or simply a way of showing that websites are highly insecure. The list of targeted sites is considerably long and if in some cases they simply unveiled the presence of cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection vulnerabilities, in other situations they’ve leaked the information found in the databases. One of the most important websites is the National Defence and Canadian Forces ( corces.gc.ca ). They not only demonstrated that the main domain contains a number of XSS security holes, but they also showed how some of the subdomains could be breached by leveraging SQL Injections. The subdomains include navy.forces.gc.ca and army.forces.gc.ca . From the systems of the Health Council of Canada they leaked database i...